8 Winter snowfall (2/2)

The snowstorm continued without stopping for four full days in Kuake City. Everything outside was now completely pure white.

During this weekend, Li Hui and Zhang Fan were both off from work, and had nowhere to go. They just stayed in their hospital dorm and chatted while reading books. Li Hui's girlfriend Wang Sha was working today, so he was stuck with Zhang Fan rather than hanging out with his girlfriend.

Later that evening, after Zhang Fan finished showering and was about to go to bed, his cell phone rang. Zhang Fan saw from the caller ID that this was a call from Superintendent Batu.

”Hello, Superintendent.”

”Zhang Fan, where are you right now? Hurry and come to the emergency department immediately.”

”I'm at the dormitory. I'll be right over—” Zhang Fan didn't even get the chance to finish his sentence when the superintendent hung up.

The roads were slippery with how large the snowfall was. Apparently, Superintendent Batu's nephew had gotten drunk, and then fallen off from a bridge that was three meters tall. Luckily, many other people were with him, so they hurriedly carried him to Kuake City Hospital.

This patient had already gone into shock. According to the CT scan, he had a comminuted fracture of the femur. After Superintendent Batu had the doctors stabilize his nephew's medical shock, he immediately got on an ambulance together with his nephew to head towards a bigger city hospital. However, it turned out that the snowfall was so great that the mountain paths out of Kuake City were untraversable. In the end, Superintendent Batu could only bring his nephew back to Kuake City hospital.

Chen Qifa was on duty tonight at surgery department #2. Superintendent Batu knew instantly from Chen Qifa's hopeless expression that Doctor Chen would be incapable of performing such a complex surgery.

”What are we going to do then? You're an orthopedic surgeon, think of something!” Superintendent Batu roared angrily at Chen Qifa.

”How about we try letting Dr. Zhang take a look? He's from a big city and a top-level college. He should know more than I do.”

Chen Qifa was the type who would try to push responsibility onto others rather than take any risk himself. Superintendent Batu immediately called Zhang Fan after hearing this. Batu was also regretting now about how he tried to take his nephew to a better city hospital instead. A lot of time had been wasted on the road, so Batu hoped that wouldn't mean it was too late for his nephew's treatment.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

Zhang Fan managed to run from the hospital dormitory to the emergency department in only three minutes flat. The corridor was filled with just about all the doctors from every department. Since the injured patient was the superintendent's close relative, just about every available doctor had come over. However, Zhang Fan didn't see Director Nuar anywhere.

”The surgery must be performed immediately. The patient is still bleeding. Just fluid infusion alone won't be able to treat his shock,” Zhang Fan immediately told Superintendent Batu after looking at the patient and the CT scan.

Superintendent Batu got closer to Zhang Fan, and whispered, ”Do you think you can do the surgery?”

”It will be difficult, but I can do it,” Zhang Fan said in a confident tone.

”Tell me about anything that you need. I will do everything in my power to obtain it. Right now, you're in complete command for this surgery.”

Superintendent Batu was originally from the radiology department. The medical field was an extremely specialized field, where each patient required a doctor with a different specialty. Batu's long years of experience had taught him that he should leave the professional medical work to others that had more knowledge in their area of specialty. Zhang Fan's confident tone gave Batu hope that his nephew could still be saved.

”Take the patient's blood to test his blood type. Prepare 1000 milliliters of the corresponding blood type for blood transfusion. The anesthesia department needs to be prepared to administer anesthesia. I, Vice Director Shi, and Doctor Chen will go to the operating room first to prepare. Medical equipment department, prepare metal plates to be inserted into the patient's body.” Zhang Fan immediately accepted his role and started issuing commands.

Thus, the surgery began. A comminuted fracture was still alright for Zhang Fan to deal with. The bigger problem was that a rather large artery had ruptured. Kuake City Hospital was a small hospital that didn't have any surgical operation microscopes. All Zhang Fan could do was perform hemostatic ligation.

This was the first time that Shi Lei had participated in a surgery with Zhang Fan. Although Shi Lei had heard the rumors before, the rumors couldn't compare to personally witnessing Zhang Fan's seemingly well-practiced and professional movements. Shi Lei felt like he was mentally falling apart after witnessing how skilled Zhang Fan was. 'Just how old could he possibly be? He's already so skilled at surgery? Considering that I'm probably twice his age, just how much of my life have I wasted?'